The Prime Minister does not rule out “proportional” or “more fiscal justice” and will “open the debate” for an “improvement” of the pension reform

In an interview with Releasethe mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, once again expresses a “deep anger” towards his political family, the Socialist Party (PS), which committed “a mistake”according to her, in ” prevents[ant] the appointment of Bernard Cazeneuve » at Matignon, then ” that he comes from [ses] ranks “.

“Once again, the leadership has turned to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. We may not agree on everything with Bernard Cazeneuve, but he is a person of the left, who would have been capable, without the assent of the extreme right, of uniting and potentially proposing a government “, continues M.^me Hidalgo. The PS leadership defends itself, stating that Emmanuel Macron had never really considered appointing Bernard Cazeneuve.

Assuming to be in internal opposition to Olivier Faure, current first secretary of the party with the rose, alongside dissidents Hélène Geoffroy and Nicolas Mayer-RossignolAnne Hidalgo believes that there is now “an urgent need to have a congress” of the PS. “Firstly, because the statutes provide for it, but also because it must, while respecting people and ideas, decide between the different strategic lines”she argues. The next congress is normally scheduled for early 2025.

Since the Marseille congress in January 2023, a strategic divide has divided the party in two on the issue of the alliance with La France insoumise (LFI) and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The line of Olivier Faure, a supporter of the union of the left with the “insoumis” and at the initiative of the former Nupes alliance (where LFI was in the majority), had won by a short head (51%) over that of the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, close to Anne Hidalgo and the president of the Occitanie regional council, Carole Delga, and over that of the mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, Hélène Geoffroy, close to former president François Hollande, all hostile to LFI.